Cadencies [noun]

The first crosslet is charged with an annulet, probably as a mark of cadency.

The rule is also disregarded entirely as regards augmentations and Scottish cadency bordures.

When any charge, ordinary, or mark of cadency surmounts a single object, that object is termed "debruised" by that ordinary.

In England, crests are theoretically subject to marks of cadency and difference.

To understand the question of cadency it is necessary to revert to the status of a coat of arms in early periods.

An instance of a sem field for cadency will be found in the case of the D'Arcy arms already mentioned.

Again, we occasionally find a change of tincture of the field of the shield used to denote cadency.

But they were used indiscriminately, as has been already stated, both for legitimate and illegitimate cadency.

In modern cadency an unpierced mullet is the difference of the third son.

In modern cadency a Double Quatrefoil is the difference of the ninth son.